Dusty Chalk

Fingers and toes crossed for Iceland and Birgir and Björk and Sólstafir and Árstíðir and...well, just everyone.

Happy birthday, ryeman! Thank you for being part of my inspiration in my quest to the deliciousness of rye. (party favour noise)

Happy birthday, fisherman! (party favour noise) If a fish farts and there aren't any sonar technicians to hear it, does it make a sound?

I approve of the bean:everything else ratio.

Last night, the guy next to me texted a picture of dessert to his wife, and his wife texted back (and I quote): F U Just Stop. The offending picture was one of one of these:

"Three fifty and a biscuit" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

What about Savatage?

"Dream" == "goal" == "aim"

Update: I could be wrong about that, I was looking at the 16" prices, thinking it was for a 14". All I saw at the B&H site was that it was a limited edition and the higher price. Yeah yeah, I know I know, "that's what she said".

A little disappointed that black is more expensive. Black is the absence of colour, so it should be cheaper. I guess that's on-brand.

Yes, this is the biggest part of the announcement that excites Dusty. They should've called it Void Black or something. It's a trick. It's so off brand.

Macbook Pro...in BLACK.

I will not pretend to be anywhere near the caliber of the talent here, but I just bought two electric saws. Suitable for framing.

Damn that Gretsch is beautiful. Wish it came in barito...oh, wait, I have that one.

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/3eedb585-d1c8-4461-99fc-6d752ab34c1d Not bad for a T-Mobile 5G box in the boonies during peak traffic Wouldn't want to need to watch something in 4K, though. Chelsea Wolfe's latest video started off as black squares and off-black squares...and her face.

You know, if you distribute the computer to a bunch of slices (shaped like an ...I don't know... orange slices, perhaps?) and then buss them together and space them apart, the cooling would be scary good, wouldn't it?

Happy birthday, Marc not Mark! (party favour noise)

Thank you, everyone! 😘

District 97, Stay for the Ending -- just released, I got my physical copy yesterday, so great, very prog, much prog, high production values, RIYL Steven Wilson, Jethro Tull, American Idol (I jest, I jest!), lots of dynamics (gets very hard and very soft)

Metric (IIRC, there are a few fans here), Formentera II

They were probably using a NISQ-era (now) Quantum Computer without the latest advances in error correction, and the qubits decohered. Also: "Think of the children chickens!"

Dusty like the color scheme.

Yeah, that was an emotional one. This is an ironic one (or unfortunate, I don't know which): Michael Chiarello -- famous food chef, died of complications resulting from an acute allergic reaction. What an awful way to go. I'll probably die of something stupid, like drowning in my own snot (I have a cold right now, and I had one of the hottest Chinese mustards I've ever had on my egg roll earlier, and the mustard loosened up my sinuses), so I am not being judgmental here.

Samsara Blues Experiment, Rock Hard in Concert (Live) Stoner, my beloved. Very comfy. Nicely psychedelic touches.